Sporckovské burlesky v Kuksu: Spinckonarto (1727); Asterea, Tamerlan und Bajazet (1730); Romanische Lucretia 1732

Abstract

Thanks to daily records by Tobias Anthony Seeman, Count of Sporck's (1662–1738) Hofmeister in Kuks (Kuckus-Baade) on Elbe, NE Bohemia, we are able to reconstruct the new type of European music theatre outside of traditional centres. The biographic Spinckonarto and especially two not yet known performances in Kuks Asterea, Tamerlan und Bajazet and Romanische Lucrezia proof the existence of Teutschen musica bernesca – i.e. a burlesca type at Sporck's dominion even earlier than Heinrich Rademin's attempts in Vienna (1731), Felix Kurtz's activities in Prague (1733), or Antonio Denzio's rescue plans in Prague even later (1735). The Kuks burlescas result from coexistence of late commedia dell'arte, German Hauptaktionen and Hanswurstiadas, Italian opera seria with comic intermezzos and marionette theatre in both professional and non-professional modifications.

Keywords

• burlesca
• musica bernesca
• Kuks
• Franz Anton Graf von Sporck
• Spinckonarto
• Asterea